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Cyclone dude from Alaska

Post by crankwalk » Sun Jul 02, 2017 4:55 pm

Hey folks,

I'm Jay from Talkeetna, AK (Think just south of Denali National Park) and i'm just joining to get ideas and use this as a learning resource. Out of all the guitars I've owned, I've found myself just feeling the most comfortable with offsets. I've owned a Tele, 2 Strats, a Jazzmaster, a Mustang and now my latest Cyclone in that order. (Ive gone down the offset rabbit hole)

It's a first year 97, Atomic HB swapped out for a Seymour Duncan and has the stock Tex-Mex single coil but both are pretty hot. I love the 24.75 scale, s/h combo and the body feel. I've owned way more expensive guitars but Cyclones always spoke to me but I could never scoop one up for a reasonable price lately. Definitely some teenage nostalgia involved too.


I do have to replace the tone pot since it is intermittent and of course I cracked the plastic tone knob tightening it back on after my inspection. I ordered a new Jazz Bass tone knob set which are identical and a new tortoise back plate to replace the white plastic cracked one. This is definitely a factory parts bin guitar with some one off stuff that is pretty hard to find.

Thanks for the resource guys and gals,

Jay

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Re: Cyclone dude from Alaska

Post by jagstang » Mon Jul 03, 2017 2:36 am

Congrats to this nice cyclone! I'm also fan of cyclones. Great guitars.

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Re: Cyclone dude from Alaska

Post by Kent » Mon Jul 03, 2017 4:17 am

à fine machine. Looks great too!

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Re: Cyclone dude from Alaska

Post by PixMix » Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:02 am

Great looking offset!

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